WEDGWOOD
In which we lust after that object of desire, the Wedgwood Queen's Ware herring dish (c 1780)
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
aka The Herripedia
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FISH FINGERS
Birdseye Frozen Foods, Clarence Birdseye, Captain Birdseye and the original herring prototype for fish fingers
PROCESSION OF THE HERRINGS
In which we explore a lost herring tradition of Reims and a lost Alexandre Dumas novel
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SCANIA FISHERY
The story of the first great empire-shaping herring fishery together with historical and scientific speculations on its rise and its fall
SCHMALTZ HERRING
An attempted exploration of exactly what this is, despite disagreement among its advocates and loose definition amongst suppliers
SHOALS
On an evolutionary strategy aimed at dealing with predation, which didn't imagine the purse seine net or the unregulated pursuit of profit
SHOALS OF HERRING, THE
Written for the BBC's Radio Ballads, a song by Ewan McColl which has entered the traditional music repertoire and is sung by many
SILVER HERRING
Somewhere between the modern bloater and the golden herring, popular in the Mediterranean - particularly in Italy
SINGING THE FISHING
Always at the forefront of documentary innovation, the herring swims through the great Radio Ballad of 1960
SMITH, ADAM: WEALTH OF NATIONS
In which we explore the curious errors and omissions in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations herring thinking
SMOKEHOUSE TALES: GERRY SKEWS
A new Lowestoft smoker, an old smokehouse and red herrings among the kippers, bloaters and many other hot and cold smoked products
SMOKEHOUSE TALES: WILL BUCKENHAM
One of the last red herring smokers, Will Buckenham in Lowestoft produces these, along with bloaters and kippers in the country's oldest working smokehouse
SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS
Charles I, The Stuarts, Maritime sovereignty, the herring and the building of a flagship
Sovereign of the Seas (2 of 6)
Herrings, herring busses, sovereignty & fishing limits; Chopwell Wood & Charles I's head; and The Herring Buss, an jig from Rob Harbron.
SPAWNING
On the spawning preferences of the herring, together with a list of the spawning grounds for the main Eastern Atlantic populations